Here we're just starting the third hour of the program, and I have not yet played any of the audio excerpts from the secret video taken by James O'Keefe of the NPR guys as O'Keefe was pretending to be an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
I want to tell you why I've waited until the third hour to do this.
When I sat down here at my broadcast complex today, I must have had easily a thousand emails, combined people I know and people I don't know.
Rush, you may not have heard about this.
Nothing gets my dander up.
So I know now what your email subject lines are now going to be.
I know I'm asking for it now.
Rush, you may not have heard this.
Rush, you've got to leave.
This is important.
This is crucial.
You've got to start with this.
Rush, you may not have heard.
On and on and on it went.
Others telling me, you have to do this first.
You've got to, this is.
So my natural reaction was, I'll wait.
I may decide not to do it at all since everybody's heard it anyway, since everybody's talking about it.
There's no news value.
Of course, I realized that while people have heard it, they probably don't really know what to think about it totally till I've commented on it.
So what happened was James O'Keefe and the boys snuck in there.
Well, they didn't sneak in there.
They just, they arranged a luncheon.
They posed as potential Muslim donors to NPR.
This back in February 22nd in Washington.
They had the NPR Foundation president Ron Schiller, National Public Radio Director of Institutional Giving, Betsy Liley, talking with Ibrahim Qassam and Amir Malik, two people posing as members of the fictitious Muslim Education Center.
And Qassam says, so you asked about our organization.
We contribute to a number of Muslim schools, Orthodox Muslim schools across the U.S.
And more recently, we contributed to some universities.
So our original, we were founded by a few members of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, actually.
So here is Ron Schiller, who is the NPR Foundation president.
What we all believe is that if we don't have Muslim voices in our schools on the air, I mean, it's the same thing that we faced, look, as a nation, when we didn't have female voices.
The current Republican Party, the particular Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people's personal lives and very fundamental Christian, and I wouldn't even call it Christian.
It's this weird evangelical kind of move that the current Republican Party is not negative, but it's been hijacked by this group.
That a radical A CC Smart Tea Party, not just from the Public, but really, I mean, basically, they are, they believe the term white, middle America, gun toting, and it's pretty scary.
They're seriously.
I mean, it is so cliche.
It proves, ladies and gentlemen, the greatest comedy has to have elements of truth in it.
Schiller's gestures, the way he's gesticulating in this, if you see the video, it's like he gestures like a geisha.
I mean, it's as effeminate as it can be.
Did you say, Mr. Lumbo, the Mr. Thiller, looked effeminate?
Yes, sir, Mr. New Castrati, I sure as heck did.
Looks like a geisha through all of this.
He's calling us the bitter clingers.
But then, did you notice here, O'Keefe, and his buddy, you mean the radical racist Islamophobic Tea Party people?
This guy falls right into the trap.
Damn right, that's what I mean.
The radical racist Islamophobic Tea Party people.
But this is where this is dangerous.
Because let's go back here to the beginning of this sunbud.
This NPR schlub, what we all believe is that we don't have Muslim voices in our schools on the air.
Same thing as we face as a nation.
We didn't have female voices.
So, just right there, you women, this is how NPR looks at you and your issues.
Then he says, The current Republican Party, particularly Tea Party, fanatically involved in people's personal lives.
Very fundamental Christian.
I wouldn't even call it Christian.
It's a weird evangelical kind of movement.
The current Republican Party is not even a Republican Party, it's been hijacked.
You mean the radical racist Islamophobic Tea Party people?
I wonder, Mr. Schiller, have you ever heard of Sharia?
Mr. Schiller, you're the biggest dupe on the face of the earth.
You are the classic illustration of useful idiot.
You are on full display here as an absolute sponge.
Have you ever heard of Sharia law and what it is?
Do you have any curiosity?
Go look it up, Mr. Schiller.
Check out Sharia law.
You want to say the Tea Party is fanatically involved in people's personal lives, fundamental Christian.
I would ho by the way, Mr. Schiller, do Muslim outlets have a lot of female voices, especially those under Sharia law?
I mean, what you know, the new castrati seem to be breeding because this Schiller guy is a new castrati.
Are you involved in off new castrate people, Mr. Well, no?
I'm just describing how you are.
You're like geishas, you gesticulate like you're effeminate.
And here he's, this is, I mean, the guy's a walking cliché.
And here he's at NPR.
He thinks he's one of the most garyadite, one of the smartest, one of the one of the elite ruling class.
This guy's the real smart guy.
You mean the radical racist Islamophobia people?
And not just Islamophobia, but the zenith.
Because NPR schlub's sitting here, he's seeing visions of $5 million donation there.
So Qassam then says, Well, we've seen like certainly how the Muslim Brotherhood, for example, has been portrayed.
You know, I'm glad that NPR will give voice to people and PBS as well.
You know, I'm glad they put Rashid Khalidi on to give the point of view and will give the Hamas and Hezbollah view in addition to the Israel view.
Now, I've talked personally as opposed to wearing my NPR hat.
It feels to me as though there's a real anti-intellectual move on the part of a significant part of the Republican Party.
You know, in my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair, and balanced.
I am most disturbed by and disappointed by in this country, which is that the educated, the so-called elite in this country is too small a percentage of the population.
So that you have this very large, uneducated part of the population that carries these ideas.
It's much more about anti-intellectualism than it is about political because a university also, by definition, is considered in this country to be liberal, even though it's not at all liberal.
It's liberal because it's intellectual.
And again, that's Ron Schiller.
That's restaurant noise.
Ron Schiller, who's head of the National Public Radio Foundation.
He's the president.
Not enough intellectuals out there.
Too many bitter clingers.
So-called elite, too small a percentage of the population.
This move is more about anti-intellectualism.
There is a brilliant British historian by the name of Paul Johnson.
He was interviewed recently, I think Wall Street Journal.
I'm not, I think it was Wall Street Journal.
Doesn't matter where, nobody needs to send me where it was.
What he said is what's important.
He praised people like Sarah Palin, being like Margaret Thatcher, courage.
Without courage, all the ideas in the world are worthless, he said.
We have the courage to stand behind them, without the courage to implement them.
And during the interview, the guy talking to Paul Johnson, well, you know, you really seem like an intellectual.
No!
No, no, no, I'm not an intellectual.
The interviewer was stunned.
Why not?
Intellectuals put ideas before people.
That's not good.
People come before ideas.
And what he means by that is, people are just pawns on a game board.
Pawns on the chest, but you've been moved around or what have you.
They don't.
They're not real, especially if they're not of the proper class.
So Mr. Johnson is talking about ideas are fine and dandy, but people come first.
And leaders who motivate and inspire people with courage, those are the great leaders.
Not, he didn't, he wasn't even talking to this guy Schiller.
I'm just extrapolating here.
But this guy Schiller is not a leader of anything.
He's a coward.
He's an effeminate little waif sitting up there waxing eloquent about how woe is the country because not everybody's smart as he is.
While he's being duped, he's in the middle of being duped here by a couple of people who have set him up royally.
Then, of all the things he said, all the things that he said, they are inflammatory and they are harmful.
But the next is what is going to get him in trouble.
This next is what he's going to really regret about all this.
Because after talking about all the anti-intellectualism and not enough smart people, so forth and so on.
Remember now, these two posers here posing as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
They want to give NPR $5 million or some such thing.
So Schiller then continues.
The Republicans play off of the belief among the general population that most of our funding comes from the government.
Very little of our funding comes from the government, but they act as though all of us have to sort of liberate the power.
It's about 10% of the total station economy.
The total station economy is about $800 million a year.
About $90 million comes from it.
Frankly, it is very clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding.
And that is what's going to come back and bite his tiny little geisha butt.
We'd be better off without federal funding.
Now, he's out there.
And his excuse will be, well, look, I'm trying to separate $5 million from these guys.
Of course, I'm going to tell him it.
But this, behind closed doors, this is what's going to gnaw at this guy's geisha butt.
I guarantee you.
You're listening here to the intellectual Ron Schiller.
So, next, Qassam and Schiller have this exchange about Jewish people.
Jews do kind of control the media.
I mean, for at least certainly the Zionists and the people who have an interest in swaying media coverage toward a favorable direction of Israel.
But since, you know, Palestine, the Palestine opinion, Palestinian viewpoint is, again, the red eye.
The Palestinian viewpoint, since NPR is one of the few places that has the courage to really present it, there's kind of a joke that we used to call it National Palestinian Radio.
I'm not too upset about maybe a little bit less Jewish influence of Jewish money in NPR, but Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.
But I don't actually find it at NPR the Zionist or pro-Israel, even among funders.
Nobody really, not pro-Israel.
I mean, it's there in those who own newspapers, obviously, but no one owns NPR.
So I actually, I don't know.
Mr. Schiller has just said that there's a Jewish domination in people who own newspapers.
Did you hear that?
Did you hear that?
Now this coupled with...
Yeah.
Jews control the media except it NPR.
Jews control the media except it NPR.
Now, remember he's being duped here by a couple guys pretending to be Muslims.
So of course he's going to exempt NPR from being controlled by the Jews.
But the rest of the media is controlled by the Jews.
Ron Schiller, this brilliant, unique, gee, wish we had more people like him, intellectual, head honcho, the NPR foundation.
The Jews do kind of control the media.
I mean, at least certainly the Zionists, the people that have the interests in swaying media coverage towards the fabled direction of Israel.
In a sense, you know, Palestinian viewpoints, yeah, the red eye, Palestinian viewpoints is NPR is one of few places has the courage to really present it.
It's kind of a joke.
We used to call it National Palestine Radio.
Already, that's good.
I like that.
I'm not too upset about maybe a little less Jewish influence of Jewish money on NPR, but Zionist coverage has been quite substantial elsewhere.
So, no, I don't actually find it at NPR, Zionist, pro-Israel, even among funders.
It's there in those who own the newspapers, obviously, but no one who owns NPR.
So I actually don't find it.
Who was it that caught hell the other day for saying this?
Oh, I'm sure Abe Foxman.
But by the time this is all over, I will be the one.
Abe Foxman is going to send me a letter demanding an apology.
Oh, sure.
I'm the one who ended up saying all this.
Vivian Schiller is Jewish, who runs all the PBS.
Vivian Schiller is Jewish.
Ron Schiller might be too, for all I know.
Who was it?
Who was it caught hell recently for saying this kind of stuff?
I can't recall.
I got one more bite, but I have to take a commercial break.
We'll be back.
Okay, yesterday afternoon at the Washington Press Club, National Press Club, the National Public Radio President CEO Vivian Schiller spoke about the future of public broadcasting.
Q ⁇ A. Reporters said, do you believe there's an imbalance in NPR terms of liberals and conservatives in the newsroom?
I think I know which side they like to have better represented there.
If the answer is yes, what do you propose to do about it?
I will tell you that it maybe doesn't get as much attention, but we get a tremendous amount of criticism for being too conservative as well.
So for those that do criticize us for being liberal, you know, I ask them when I get that personally, I ask them to point to specific stories.
And when they do, we take those very seriously.
Have we erred?
Absolutely.
We have erred in the past.
But we make corrections and we always strive to do better.
Right.
And another question was, how high would you say the risk is?
Ultimately, the deficit-cutting environment seems to be pervasive in Washington right now.
How great is the risk to your enterprise as well as those interested in your well-being?
It is a very significant risk, and it's a risk to all of public broadcasting.
We take this very, very seriously.
It would have a profound impact, we believe, on our ability of public broadcasting's ability to deliver cultural programming and the arts to the audience.
She basically came out and said that federal funds are critical.
Schiller guy said, if the truth be known, we don't need federal funds.
He said, there are the two guys pretending to be Muslims.
So the full NPR statement on all this has now been released from Dana Davis-Ream, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Communications, and External Relations.
The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us to accept a $5 million check with no strings attached, which we repeatedly refused to accept.
We are appalled by the comments made by Ron Schiller in the video, which are contrary to what NPR stands for.
Mr. Schiller announced last week he's leaving NPR for another job.
So Schiller's going to have to go find another group of intellectuals to hang around.
NPR has responded, and he's gone.
She was responding to, among other things, Schiller saying the current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, fanatically involved in people's personal lives, very fundamental Christian.
I would even call it Christian.
It's weird evangelical kind of move.
Racist, racist people.
So Schiller is leaving.
He's going to the Aspen Institute.
They referenced his recently announced departure for the Aspen Institute.
Mr. Schiller announced last week he's leaving NPR for another job.
The Aspen Institute.
There's a lot of Aspen things out there.
You know, I was trying to think, who recently got chewed out for lighting into the Jews?
It was Charlie Sheen.
It's Charlie Sheen.
Before that, you know, Rick Sanchez, anybody heard from him since he went into his anti-Jewish rant on somebody's radio show or a television show?
So at any rate, I guess he's, I think it's Walter Isaacson, runs the Aspen Institute.
He used to run Time magazine.
Took a turn at CNN, although it might be there's a bunch of Aspen things.
This might not be Isaacson's, where Schiller is going.
Anyway, that's that.
Much more plus your phone calls coming up right after this.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbos, starting a million conversations, mind over chatter.
Now, back to the phones, Alan in Lowell.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Rush, you talked about courage earlier.
What frustrates me the most is why do we have wimpy candidates that will not tell it like it is?
And frankly, I don't understand why, because I don't understand what they're afraid of.
You're not in a radio show.
Fox News is the popular, you know, O'Reilly has motivated.
Wait a second, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait a second, because I've explained all this this week.
Getting an audience is a lot different than getting votes.
You cannot get votes from people that hate you.
People that hate you will watch you, will listen to you.
You've got to keep giving the haters a reason to hate you.
But the polls all show that the country is center-right, and in my opinion, probably more right.
I understand that.
Democrats, when they campaign, they campaign to the right.
I understand.
Why do we campaign to the left?
It just frustrates me.
Well, I wouldn't say that we're campaigning to the left.
What we're talking about this week is the people you're calling wimps.
I'm not going to call them wimps.
They think it's safer to focus on policy differences rather than talk about philosophies.
I think ideology ought to be part of a campaign.
I just do.
I agree.
I'm not ashamed to be conservative.
I'm not ashamed to say I'm a Reaganite.
I'm not ashamed to say that I am a constitutional conservative.
But, you know, no, I'm not a wimp.
I'm not saying these guys are wimps.
I'm saying that there is a they've got a strategy.
They all, I think, believe in Obama.
We talked about this today.
Obama's universally popular, loved, liked guy.
They think it's not going to be productive.
Go after somebody who's well-liked.
My whole point is he's not well-liked, and he's not warm in companies.
He's a cold, calculating guy.
You know, and mainstream media is still gigantic.
When you add up every newspaper in this country and every local television station, they're still gigantic compared to Fox News.
And so that's what we've been discussing all week, Alan, is the belief here that policy differences need to be the focus from the current crop of candidates.
They think that's the best way to go about it.
Obama's policies have led to current economic circumstances, will lead to even worse economic circumstances.
Obama's policies will cause America's influence in the world to shrink.
Obama's policies are causing a vast reduction in American exceptionalism.
And more of it is going to blah, blah, blah.
They just think that's the most effective way to communicate.
All right.
Question here from the official program observer.
What, uh...
Mm-hmm.
Uh...
Snuddy wants to know if any of the current crop came to my defense during the flap over I hope he fails.
No.
No.
But Snerdley, nobody in politics did.
A few media people did on our slide.
Nobody in politics came to mind.
I'm sure they were sweating that out.
I'm sure they were sweating bullets on that.
I guarantee you think, oh, geez, what is he saying this for?
Why is he creating this problem for us?
I'm sure that's what the political class was saying.
I don't think, Snerdley, that too many of those people even today think it was the right way to go about it.
I don't believe, I'm dead serious.
I think most in the political class today do not think, I probably still wish I hadn't said I hope he fails.
And most of them would not certainly pick up the banner.
I can be wrong.
I'm just because theirs is a different job than this one is.
And I am the first to understand this.
Getting votes, a far different prospect than getting an audience for a media president.
No, Snerdley, they don't think that.
You know, here's what I'm hearing, folks in the IFB.
You can't hear Snerdley is saying my claim that I hope he fails is what was the icebreaker and opened up the avenue for the rest of our party to start criticizing him.
I don't know how to say this.
I don't quite know how to say this.
I don't want to burst your bubble, but that's not at all how they look at that, nor do they look at me that way.
They don't.
Guys I'm talking to do not look at me as an ally.
They look at me as not just me.
I mean, a lot of the conservative media don't look at me as an ally.
They look at me as we keep that out of our way.
How do we keep that out of our way?
I think it's not personal.
I don't take any of it personally.
But one thing I've learned over the course of my life, not just in this career, but as a human being, one thing I've learned is you have to be honest about who you are.
People ask me.
In fact, here's the real beginning of this was I remember when I really idolized George Will and William Buckley and I first got a chance to meet them.
I'm sitting at home not having yet met them and wondering about them.
And when I got a chance to talk to them, I asked them, because I had my own impressions of them as being crucially important to the formulation of opinion in the country, having a great, great impact on policy events and so forth.
And I remember I asked them, George Will first, you ever sit at home late at night, family's gone to bed, you ever take stock, feel proud about what you've done and the influence you have?
And Will just poo-pooed that, made it sound like it was sort of a silly question and said, I don't think of myself like that at all.
I'm thinking about what I have to do tomorrow.
And Buckley didn't say that exact thing, but it was somewhat similar.
I have people asking me that now.
I've had or if they don't ask me, they treat me that way.
And I do not think of my, I'm looked, you know what I think that most people out there look at me as a necessary evil.
You know, I'm there and there's nothing they can do about it.
So I'm someone they have to maneuver around and accommodate for and allow for, but not be guided by.
Certainly not.
Ain't no way.
And I don't want to burst your bubble because you're sitting in there thinking that's how I'm viewed by everybody out there.
It's not that way.
It isn't.
It isn't that way.
But you got to be honest.
I don't care who you are and what you do for a living, whatever, you've got to be honest with you about who you are.
Who was it?
Clint Eastwood, after he just shot somebody, one of the spaghetti westerns, some man's got to know his limitations.
I mean, you can't, you're going to sit around and lie to yourself about how big you are and how important you are.
You are headed for the biggest wake-up call that could crush you psychologically that you could ever face.
That's why I have to, because sometimes I kind of laugh at these people on like you can tell.
I don't care who it is.
You can tell when somebody's really full of themselves and really thinks that they're the cat's meow, as my mom used to say.
And then you realize their audience might be 500,000 people.
And in the big scheme of things, nobody's ever even heard of them, much less cares, but they're sitting there telling themselves how big and important they are.
It's living a lie.
And I've always tried, it was Magnum Force.
That was the dirty hair.
It was not the spaghetti westerns.
It was Magnum Force.
Yeah, Eastwood.
Dirty Harry.
Look, folks, married people don't really have dates.
They have encounters.
And some are pleasant and some aren't.
But you know, by the way, today is International Women's Day.
That's the communist version of Valentine's Day, but it is.
It's International Women's Day.
And where did I read?
I'm not even sure if I printed it out.
There's a story somewhere on how the women's movement has turned men into just a bunch of mush.
Starting in colleges and so forth.
It's a bunch of alpha women and a bunch of men who've been beaten down into not willing to be men anymore.
It's not worth the trouble.
That women coming out of college are more educated, they're more motivated, they own more property than your average male graduating from college today.
It's the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, and that's why that story was written.
It might have been at National Review Online.
Heck, I don't remember.
I read so much, and sometimes I don't print it all out, so I don't recall.
Nobody needs to send it to me.
Show's almost over.
Jerry in Halifax, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yes, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
My subject is Obamacare.
Obamacare.
And my observation is this: the CBO scored Obamacare while it was being debated in the House and the Senate.
Now, waivers to over a thousand companies and organizations have been issued so they don't have to comply with the law.
So my question is: shouldn't the CBO re-score that legislation against these thousands?
Not only for those reasons, but something that we all said at the moment it was happening.
$500 billion in Medicare cuts.
We said there weren't going to be $500 billion in Medicare.
Remember, there were $500 billion in Medicare cuts in order to get them under a trillion bucks.
And we said there's no way a bunch of Democrats are going to get rid of $500 billion in Medicare spending.
It didn't happen.
And we looked at it.
We looked at they're double counting it.
They double counted it.
And Sebelius admitted it.
When it's just last Thursday, it was on Capitol Hill.
John Shimkis, Republican, Illinois, your own actuary has said that you can't double count.
Your law cut $500 billion in Medicare, then you're also using the same $500 billion, saying you're funding health care.
You're cutting it and funding it.
Now, which is it?
And here's what she said.
Sir, the Affordable Care Act is 12 years to the Medicare Trust Fund, according to every actuary, and the $500 billion represents a slowdown in the growth rate of Medicare over 10 years from what was projected at 8% to 8%.
So is it Medicare?
Is it using it to save Medicare or are you using it to fund health care reform?
Which one?
Both.
The gentleman, so you're double counting.
I yield back to my time.
Double counting.
They used it to show a cut, and then they added it back in in another part of the bill for spending.
So right there alone, in addition to the whole bill being unconstitutional now, right there alone, the whole notion on which this thing was scored has been admitted to as a fraud by no less than the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius.
Voila.
And of course, again, just to remind you, another thing we told you when it was happening.
A lot of people knew it.
Some other people, this is just news today, but it's been known for quite a while.
Yet, here's Paul Johnson in the Wall Street Journal.
Sarah Palin is in the good tradition of America, which this awful political correctness business goes against.
She's got courage.
It's very important in politics.
She has all the right ideas and the ability to express them.
But if you haven't got guts, if you haven't got courage, the way Margaret Thatcher had courage and Ronald Reagan come to think of it, well, it's the central value.
Courage is the central value of American politics.
If you don't have that, the rest is irrelevant.
Paul Johnson, brilliant British historian and journalist.